User blog comment:JAlbor/DmC: Devil May Cry Starter's Guide/@comment-1512913-20130103032206/@comment-775152-20130114023758

They did call it a prequel, but that is entirely false because it most definitely isn't. You can't have a prequel without something coming first, just like you can't have a sequel before you have a first movie or novel. If anything, they should refer to it as an "origin story." It is possible this was intended as a prequel to DMC3, but; if that was the case, NT and/or Capcom have since scrapped that train of thought.